Knockdown paper box



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

(No Model.) 2 sheets-sheet. 2.

P. E. BOWB.

KNOGKDOWN PAPER BOX.

Patented Aug. 8, 1882.

UNTTED STATES PATENT QEEICE.

KNOCKDOWN PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 262,201, dated August8, 1882.

Application filed J' une 2G, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that 1, PATRICK Bown, a citizen ofthe United States, residingat Chicopee, in the county ot' Hampden and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Knockdown Paper Boxes, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to'improvements in that class of paper boxesknown as knockdown boxes,the object being to provide a box of that classwhich can be constructed practically without waste of material, and withsuch disposition of the same in the completed box as provides foruncommonly strengthened corners, and such an arrangement ot' locking-apsas permits of rapidly setting up the box.

1u the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure lillustratesthe box-blank for constructing a box according to myinvention. Fig. 2 is a box setup, ready for use. Fig. 3is asimilar viewto Fig. 2, but showing the box inverted.

ln the drawings, D is the bottom of the box and the central part oftheblank.

5 5, 6 6 are the folding-lines at thejunction of sides and ends with thepart D and ot' the corner-flaps with the ends.

2 2 2 2 are the corner-aps.

3 3 are the side, and c o are the end, parts.

a a a a are locking-deps for the corner-flaps 2, as also are the ilaps bb b b.

The locking-slots for the flaps a are designated by the letter d,andthose for the ilapsb by the letter fn.

The blank, Fig. 1, from which the withindescribed box is made, isconstructed by scoring, indenting, or otherwise suitably preparing thelines 5 and 6 upon a piece of cardboard of suitable size, so that thesides 3 3 and ends c o of the box may be easily turned up at rightangles to the bottom D, and also to permit of bending the cornerilaps 2against the outside of the sides 3 after the latter have been turned up,as above described. The corner-tlaps 2 are separated from the sides 3 bya suitable cut from the edges of the blank inward to the lines 5, butcutting into the ends ofthe side pieces, 3 3, to form the flaps b, and acut through each corner-Hap leaves the ap a in each one thereof. Thusattached to each iiap 2 are two locking-aps, a and b.

The box-blanks, made as above described and as shown in Fig. 1, iscompleted, ready for shipment, in a flat form and for use, and is setup, as represented in Figs. 2 and 3, by rst turning np the sides 3, thenbending the ends against the ends ot' the latter, and inserting thelocking-flaps a in the slits cl and the ilaps b in the slits a, as shownin the gures showing the set-up box.

A suitable coverfor this box may be constructed by attaching to asuitable central part as much of the sides and ends of this box as isrepresented above the dotted line in Fig. 2, embracing therein thelooking-naps u,- or a cover embodying the entire construction ot' thebody of the box may be used.

What I claim as myinvention is A blank for a knockdown paper box,provided with the folding-lines 5 6, and consisting ofthe central part,D, the side and end parts, 3 3 and c c, and the coruer-ilaps 2 2 2 2,each of said corner-flaps being provided with locking-tlaps a and b, andsaid sides and central portions of said blank having the locking slits dand a therein, all as set i'orth.

PATRICK E. BOWE.

Witnesses:

H. A. OHAPIN, B. F. HYDE.

